Rajee Rajakumar, Ph.D.

Rajee Rajakumar, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received my Ph.D. in Biology at McGill University in the lab of Ehab Abouheif studying the developmental basis of caste evolution in ants at the level of genes, hormones, and epigenetics. I was then a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Martin J. Cohn at the University of Florida, where I used skates and sharks to investigate the evolutionary and developmental origins of key vertebrate traits. As a post-doc in the Perrimon lab, I am utilizing Drosophila genetics to address some of the elusive mechanistic questions that I have generated over the years with non-model organisms.